A preliminary study of the comfort of paced respiration
A preliminary study of the comfort of paced respiration
复制标题
定速呼吸舒适度的初步研究
DOI:
10.1111/1468-5884.00137
复制
发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
Y. Sawada
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Y. Sawada
In order to obtain basal information about what type of externally paced respiration is comfortable, 25 male and 25 female undergraduate students were asked to practice self-paced respiration. After a 1-min rehearsal following instructions on comfortable self-paced respiration, subjects carried out 2 min of self-paced respiration and rated their level of comfort on a scale of 1–5. This was repeated (up to a maximum of seven times) until the subject recorded a high rating. Results indicated that self-paced respiration was most comfortable, irrespective of sex, when a respiratory pattern was attained of half the respiratory rate and nearly twice the tidal volume of the trainee's resting condition. Although respiratory sinus arrhythmia and heart rate were indicative of a decrease in cardiac vagal activity and end-tidal PCO2 was suggestive of a reduction in anxiety, these effects were small. The results have implications for the utilization of externally paced respiration.